Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them

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Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication A Chapter That’s Not a Number Big Numbers 1.000000000000000858 A Bolt of relativity The Challenger Deep A glimpse into the abyss A Googol The tales of Gerard Grant The entropic captor A Googolplex The quantum sorcerer Where is your doppelgänger? Graham’s Number Black hole head death Too much information Think of a number Tree(3) The Game of Trees The cosmic reset The holographic truth Little Numbers Zero A beautiful number A history of nothing Zero is symmetry Finding zero 0.0000000000000001 The unexpected Higgs boson Particle particulars The inevitable Higgs boson Technically, it’s not natural The Scarlet Pimpernel 10–120 An embarrassing number Albert Einstein’s most difficult relationship The golden ticket The ghost of Sir Isaac Newton Infinity Infinity The infinite gods The aleph and the omega Close encounters of the infinite kind The Theory of Everything Notes Notes 1 Notes 2 Notes 3 Notes 4 Notes 6 Notes 7 Notes 8 Acknowledgments Index A Note About the Author Newsletter Sign-up Copyright